This is a super complicated episode with lots of Q antics since it has two Q and I am operating on very little sleep (the same reason I missed my episode yesterday) so I may summarize more than usual. But that isn't in this case because I didn't enjoy the episode. It is a bit strange since the episode is super fun with Riker making an appearance to flirt hard with Janeway and Isaac Newton dropping by to talk about how the suicidal Q (from here forward referred to as Quinn just to avoid confusion) hit on the head with an apple. Also some hippy who saved Woodstock which seems like a bit of a lesser contribution than teaching humans how gravity works, but whatever.
The episode opens with Torres trying to beam a chunk of a comet on board but instead she accidentally beams Quinn on board. He tells her he is Q and flashes through her confinement field no problem. He shows up on the bridge to talk to Janeway before taking her with him to the mess hall. He tells her he has been confined for 300 years and really only wants to die, but when he tries instead all the male members of the ships crew disappear. Quinn doesn't seem to know what to do but the classic Q appears. He blames Quinn for Voyager being in the Delta quadrant, but that is clearly not Quinn's fault. Janeway admits that she is responsible for releasing Quinn and Q jokes about her being a woman and then brings all the men back. The two Q chase each other all over the space time continuum before Quinn finally gives in and asks Janeway for asylum. Q agrees to let her arbitrate the matter and agrees to let him kill himself if he wins but also that he will go back to confinement if he loses.
Quinn asks Tuvok to represent him and even though Tuvok disagrees with him, he agrees. The hearing begins with Q calling himself as a expert witness on the Q continuum and argues that letting them kill themselves would be a huge interruption with unknown side effects. Tuvok points out that the Q have capital punishment and Q just says that is different without much defense. Q then calls three witnesses, Isaac Newton who Quinn hit on the head with an apple, Riker who's grandfather was saved by Quinn, and some hippy he helped get to Woodstock in time to plug in a cord or something and meet his future wife. Quinn gets to state his case and has them brought to the comet core he has been held in for so long. Q tries to bribe Janeway with an offer to bring them home, but of course she refuses and never brings it up again, which is dumb. Why is it ok to get the caretaker to send them home but not Q? They all take a visit to the Q continuum and it is just some boring town in the desert. Janeway eventually delivers her verdict, she rules in favor of Quinn and Q makes him human. A short time later he kills himself with hemlock he ironically got from Q.
Review: An interesting look at what it means to be immortal and if one should have the right to not be immortal any more. Fairly not annoying for a Q episode but it did really bother me that Janeway didn't try to make some sort of deal to get home.
7 out of 10
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